Travis Tritt Ties The Knot With No. 3

PEOPLE IN THE NEWS

April 14, 1997

Country singer Travis Tritt serenaded model Theresa Nelson with his hit, More Than You'll Ever Know, when they were married during the weekend at his home outside Atlanta. Tritt, 34, wrote the song for Nelson, according to Tritt's publicist Nancy Russell. The song was a No. 1 single for Tritt. More than 300 guests attended Saturday's wedding The couple met in February 1995 at a party. It's Tritt's third marriage, Nelson's first.

Tritt is nominated in music video and duet categories of the Academy of Country Music Awards on April 23.

He sues them ... then they sue him

Two women filed sexual-harassment lawsuits claiming they were fired from the TV show Nash Bridges after rejecting the advances of star Don Johnson.

In the suits filed Friday in Superior Court in San Francisco, Antonia Napoli and Kiel Murray accuse Johnson of 12 acts of misconduct, including fondling their breasts and other, improper touching. Napoli was a production assistant on the show and Murray was Johnson's chauffeur.

Johnson sued them three weeks ago, accusing both of defamation, invasion of privacy and infliction of emotional distress.

His suit claims they tried to extort $1.5 million in exchange for an agreement not to sue for sexual harassment. "They are no doubt trying to retaliate for Don's suit," said Johnson attorney Ronald Litz.

Nobody's perfect

The New York Times, in a story about the shopping habits of Richard Branson, noted that when the Virgin Airlines mogul flew to the Grammys recently, he arrived in New York to discover that the airline - his own - had lost his luggage.

"I was born with white hair, which was beautiful," the MTV personality, 24, told New York-based TV Guide for its April 19 issue. "Then in sixth grade it started changing to puke brown. By eighth grade I was a full brunette."

McCarthy, who started MTV's The Jenny McCarthy Show this year, said she has been through some hard times at Los Angeles hair salons.

One time, she said, "they put this mush on it and my hair got this blue tone. We rinsed it out and my hair was Smurf blue. I went to another salon. This guy puts bleach on my head and puts me under the dryer. After an hour, he goes, `Oh, my God! I totally forgot!' and starts to rinse my hair. I reach up to touch it and it is gone."

`You gotta believe'

Singer Marshall Chapman has a chair fit for a king. Not just any king, but The King.

The country-rock singer paid $3,250 on Friday in Spartanburg, S.C., for a wooden chair that Elvis Presley purportedly once used at the Piedmont Steak House.

No one is sure which chair Elvis used when he visited the restaurant after a 1955 concert, but Chapman said she's keeping the faith that The King actually reclined in the one she bought. "You just gotta believe in something," she said. "I don't believe in Santa Claus anymore, but I believe Elvis sat in this chair."

Clinton's shift upsets women's political panel

The influential Hollywood Women's Political Committee, made up of executives, writers and stars such as Barbra Streisand, has ceased operation to protest the role of money in politics, a founding member said Sunday in Los Angeles.

"Money had become the driving force, rather than politics. The richest people are getting to office and we didn't want to be part of it," said Barbara Corday, a television producer and one of the committee's founders.

Corday said the decision to cease operation was reached Saturday at a board meeting of the committe, which had disbursed nearly $6 million directly to liberal causes and funds nationwide since it was launched in 1984.

The committee, which fused money, liberal politics and Hollywood celebrities, had grown increasingly disappointed with President Clinton's rightward swing, she said. "It goes back to the sense that if you can't be part of the solution, you're part of the problem," said Corday.

She said the organization was particularly disappointed by Clinton's and other congressional Democrats' support of last year's welfare reform bill. "The welfare bill was the turning point," said Corday.

"This was the biggest statement we could make about contributions," she said.

ALMANAC

It's the 104th day of the year; 261 days are left in 1997. On this day:

In 1865, President Abraham Lincoln was shot by John Wilkes Booth while attending the comedy Our American Cousin at Ford's Theater in Washington. Lincoln died at 7:22 the next morning, April 15. In 1912, the British liner Titanic struck an iceberg just before midnight off Newfoundland. The ship some said "God himself could not sink" sank less than 21/2 hours later on the morning of April 15.

Thought for today: "`History repeats itself' and `History never repeats itself' are about equally true ... We never know enough about the infinitely complex circumstances of any past event to prophesy the future by analogy."- British historian George Macaulay Trevelyan (1876-1962)